Cbc Documentary: Migrants and Geneva-Based Agency

cbc documentary: ANALYSIS 'Race against time' to save migrants adrift on the Mediterranean Sea The Current CBC documentary captures life of asylum seekers on rescue boat Scores of migrants have been drowning each week as the fragile and often overcrowded boats they travel on capsize or sink, the UN agency said, according to CBC. It blamed bad weather, flimsy boats and the fact that migrants fleeing war and poverty are increasingly taking the hazardous central Mediterranean route from Libya to Italy in an attempt to reach Europe. The Geneva-based agency had warned Tuesday that this year death toll was likely to exceed the 3,771 deaths reported for the whole of 2015. A deal between the European Union and Turkey largely closed off the eastern route earlier this year. About half of the 327,800 migrants who crossed the Mediterranean this year did so using the central route, where about one in every 47 people dies. About half of the 327,800 migrants who crossed the Mediterranean this year did so using the central route from Libya to Italy, where about one in every 47 people dies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.